Ryan may refer to:
People and fictional characters
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Ryan (given name)
Ryan is an English-language given name of Irish name, Irish origin. Traditionally a male name, it has been used increasingly by both males and females since the 1970s. It comes from the Irish surname Ryan (surname), Ryan, which in turn comes from ...
, a given name (including a list of people with the name)
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Ryan (surname)
Ryan (Irish: ''Ó Riain'') is a common surname of Irish origin, as well as being a common given name in the English-speaking world.
Origins and meaning
There are several different origins for the surname. In some cases it may be a shortened for ...
, a surname (including a list of people with the name)
Places
Australia
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Division of Ryan
The Division of Ryan is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland.
History
The division was created in 1949 and is named after T. J. Ryan, Premier of Queensland from 1915 to 1919. Ryan is located in south east Queensland, and is general ...
, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in Queensland
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Ryan, New South Wales
Ryan is a village community in the central south part of the Riverina, in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is situated by road, about 19 kilometres south-west from Henty Henty may refer to:
Australian geography
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Ryan, Queensland, a suburb of the City of Mount Isa
United States
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Ryan, California
Ryan (formerly known as Devar ("Devair" as a misprint)) is an unincorporated community in Inyo County, California. A former mining community and company town, Ryan is situated at an elevation of in the Amargosa Range, northeast of Dante's Vie ...
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Lila C, California
Lila C (also known as Ryan or Old Ryan) is a former settlement in Inyo County, California. It was located southwest of Death Valley Junction, at an elevation of 2562 feet (781 m).
Borax Company
The settlement was connected by rail to the Lila C ...
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Ryan, Iowa
Ryan is a city in Delaware County, Iowa, United States. The population was 350 at the time of the 2020 census.
Geography
Ryan is located at (42.350648, -91.482986).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , a ...
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Ryan, Minnesota
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Ryan, Illinois
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Ryan, Oklahoma
Ryan is a town in Jefferson County, Oklahoma, United States, located north of the Texas state line. The population was 816 at the 2010 census, a decline of over 8.7 percent from the figure of 894 in 2000.
Geography
Ryan is located at (34.02167 ...
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Ryan, Washington Ryan is a ghost town in Stevens County, Washington, United States. The GNIS
The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the ...
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Ryan, West Virginia Ryan is a populated place in Roane County, West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify West V ...
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Ryan Park, Wyoming
Ryan Park is a census-designated place (CDP) in Carbon County, Wyoming, Carbon County, Wyoming, United States, that is located within the Medicine Bow–Routt National Forest. "Ryan Park" is designated as an acceptable place name by the United S ...
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Ryan Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Ryan Township is a township in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,526 at the 2020 census.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 18.1 square miles (47.0&nbs ...
Film, radio, television and web
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''Ryan'' (film), an animated documentary
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''Ryan'' (TV series), 1970s Australian TV series
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Von Ryan's Express
''Von Ryan's Express'' is a 1965 World War II adventure film starring Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, and Raffaella Carrà, and directed by Mark Robson. Produced in CinemaScope, the film depicts a group of Allied prisoners of war (POWs) who conduc ...
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Other uses
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Ryan M-1
The Ryan M-1 was a mail plane produced in the United States in the 1920s, the first original design built by Ryan.Taylor 1989, p. 774. It was a conventional gear parasol-wing monoplane with two open cockpits in tandem and fixed, tailskid undercar ...
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Ryan Aeronautical Company (Claude Ryan)
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Ryanair
Ryanair is an Irish ultra low-cost carrier founded in 1984. It is headquartered in Swords, Dublin, Ireland and has its primary operational bases at Dublin and London Stansted airports. It forms the largest part of the Ryanair Holdings family ...
(Tony Ryan)
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Ryan Field (disambiguation)
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Ryan International Airlines (Ron Ryan)
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Ryan International School
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Ryan LLC, a Dallas-based tax services and consulting firm
*Ryan-Pitman Theory (
Black Sea deluge theory)
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Ryansdóttir, Icelandic patronymic for ''daughter of Ryan''
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Operation RYAN, a Soviet military intelligence operation which acronym stands for Raketno-YAdernoe Napadenie ("Nuclear Missile Attack")
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Typhoon Ryan
A typhoon is a mature tropical cyclone that develops between 180° and 100°E in the Northern Hemisphere. This region is referred to as the Northwestern Pacific Basin, and is the most active tropical cyclone basin on Earth, accounting for a ...
See also
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Justice Ryan (disambiguation)
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Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan''
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